ROSTON CAMP./ 1935.
J. R. Cresswell (fl.c.1930 - 1952)
Category
Education objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper and leather
Measurements
197 mm (height); 189 mm (width)
Place of origin
Alfreton
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671363
Summary
A photograph album with a brown suede leather binding stuck to orange paper. Impressed into the front cover is written in black ink 'Roston Camp. 1935'. It contains black and white photographs and a newspaper cutting of the Grassmoor Central Girls School camp at Roston in 1935. There are two photographs of Sudbury Hall. Each photograph in the album has a handwritten caption.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by N. C. Cresswell. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on the inside of the front cover: 'To be returned to 9b./ JR Cresswell' On the label on the inside of the front cover: 'FERNWOOD,/ 60 ASHOVER ROAD,/ OLD TUPTON, NR. CHESTERFIELD.' Inside the front cover: 'GRASSMOOR COUNCIL SCHOOL/ GIRLS.
Makers and roles
J. R. Cresswell (fl.c.1930 - 1952), compiler Grassmoor Central Girls School , school (institution)